Bill Text: CT HB06659 | 2015 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Intimidation On Account Of Occupation As Public Safety Personnel.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-28 - Referred to Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security [HB06659 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2015-HB06659-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Proposed Bill No. 6659
January Session, 2015		LCO No. 764
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY
Introduced by:
REP. SREDZINSKI, 112th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING INTIMIDATION ON ACCOUNT OF OCCUPATION AS PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That sections 53a-181i to 53a-181l, inclusive, of the general statutes, concerning the crime of intimidation based on bigotry or bias, be amended to make it a violation for a person, with the intent to intimidate or harass another person because of the actual or perceived occupation of such person as a police officer, firefighter or emergency medical technician, to assault or threaten, or damage the property of, such other person.

Statement of Purpose:

To protect police officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians by making it a hate crime to assault or verbally attack a person because of the actual or perceived occupation of such person.